Well, it's not so much that the majority of fully-validating non-mining clients are run by economically useless riffraff, it is more the fact that the network is dumbed down to the point that economically useless riffraff govern the capacity of the system.
all i want is a node i can run purely to validate my own transaction and check my balances.
i would rather do that on my own equipment, say prosumer class (is that still a word - high power personal computers HEDT maybe but beefed to the max), a decent server or two for (failover) and enough raid for the blockchain.
i can live with that. i mean rpis are out as well as most regular desktops.yes ya gotta pay to play,
but bsv seems to want much much more.